The murderer Che Guevara is still dead. And the sun still rises in the east and sets in the west. And Fidel Castro’s government lies. A simple DNA test could prove Castro and his government are liars (as if daily life in Cuba didn’t…):

A former CIA operative and Cuban exile is the latest to call the 1997 reburial of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara a fraud, because he said the body of one of Fidel Castro’s closest friends is still in Bolivia.

Gustavo Villoldo, 71, said he has strands of faded hair that he snipped before burying Guevara’s body under a Bolivian airstrip in 1967. He believes the remains are likely still there, not in the official grave site in a Cuban mausoleum. DNA tests could confirm his theory, he said.

But Villoldo would also need Guevara’s relatives to come forward to confirm a DNA match, an unlikely possibility as most of his children are supportive of the Cuban government.

Villoldo was involved in Guevara’s capture in October 1967 in the jungles of Bolivia, according to unclassified U.S. records and other documents. He told The Miami Herald that he wrote down the burial coordinates and hopes one day to give them to Guevara’s family.

Since the Cuban government announced in 1995 that its anthropologists had uncovered Guevara’s remains from the Bolivian airstrip, some experts have raised doubts about the discovery. They question whether it was a public-relations stunt to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Guevara’s death.

What?!?! Castro lie and conduct a publicity stunt?!?! I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you! :lol:

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They’ve tried keeping this under the radar, but the Miami Herald apparently has caught wind of a secret child custody battle where the child’s guardians are in the U.S.–but the father lives in Cuba:

A 4-year-old girl living in Coral Gables is at the center of an international custody dispute between the United States and Cuba over who will raise her: her father who lives in Cuba and wants her back, or a family acquaintance who Florida child welfare administrators say is more fit.

Because of a secrecy order, the battle over the youngster has played out quietly in Miami-Dade County’s juvenile courthouse in Allapattah. But three sources with knowledge of the case say state child-welfare workers have asked Circuit Judge Jeri B. Cohen to grant long-term custody of the girl to an acquaintance of the girl’s family.

The girl, whose identity is being withheld by court and child-welfare administrators, was taken from her mother by the Florida Department of Children & Families about a year ago, sources said, after an investigation into charges that the mother’s severe mental illness made her an unfit parent.

The Castro government hates to lose even one young, impressionable mind to freedom. It makes them look bad. And looking good is far more important to the Castro brothers than, say, the future of a four-year-old girl. Or the lives of 11 million, for that matter.

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I added that last part to the headline of a Reuters dispatch on the decrepit state of buildings in Havana. Because anyone with half a brain (that apparently excludes most of Reuters’ staff) knows the reason for Havana’s decay is Fidel Castro.

Reuters being Reuters, they (naturally) can’t help toss at least one compliment to Castro (they claim Castro’s dictatorship is responsible for saving “Havana’s eclectic architecture” from demolition) in a story that is surprisingly and refreshingly somewhat truthful about Cuba. Of course, they save the best lines for last:

Central Havana was the site of the only riots against Castro’s rule in the hot summer of 1994 when some 35,000 people took to the sea in rafts is a desperate exodus to the United States.

The Cuban government blames the “blockade” — as it refers to U.S. sanctions — for the country’s economic shortcomings.

But some Cubans say the government has only itself to blame for the urban decay of Havana.

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According to a CBS news story, Cuba has replaced two ministerial big-wig bureaucrats. Big whoop-de-do.

How’s about we replace the Dictator-In-Chief (DIC) Fidel Castro and his baby brother Raul instead? And the whole communistic kit and caboodle while we’re at it. We can replace them all with true democracy and freedom.

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Now, how do you top a headline like that? The University of Michigan’s student newspaper recently published a photo and caption with that title. It’s a pinata of Fidel Castro at an event by the Young Americans for Freedom, promoting a speech by Cuban-American and anti-Castro author Humberto Fontova on campus. Just seeing the photo and reading the caption gives me hope for the next generation.


Castro Pinata

Ooh, I want one. Love to bash Castro with a bat. Besides, it’d go good sitting next to my Fidel Castro dartboard and Fidel Castro toilet paper.

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Of all the things I come across on the Internet is one that I thought was, well, odd but it reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to post.

A columnist for the Decatur (Alabama) Daily somehow ties zombies and communism together in a column about zombie movies. The piece is titled Commie zombies haunt the world:

To get back to the issue at hand, however, what do zombies have to do with the man who co-authored “The Communist Manifesto”?

Answer: everything.

As bizarre as it sounds, I would agree. Because a co-worker of mine (from my “day” job) visited Cuba recently to see her relatives. And she told me everyone appears to be a zombie in Cuba. What do Cuban kids want to be when they grow up? American. What does everyone in Cuba want? An exit visa. The Castro government has stolen the souls of 11 million Cubans who live miserable lives, going through the motions as they ponder the day when their nightmare will finally be over.

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Is it any surprise when a country that once wore the noose of communism is a friend to those seeking freedom from Castro? The Czech Republic is taking in three Cuban families who escaped from Castro’s hell but didn’t quite make it to dry land in the U.S.:

The Czech government, which is known for its support of Cuba’s opposition movement, agreed to grant asylum to the families at the request of the United States. Identities of the refugees were not revealed to prevent persecution of their relatives still living on the island.

A small number of Cuban citizens are generally given shelter at the remote U.S. Navy base (my note: this refers to Guantanamo) as a first step to being given asylum at a country other than the United States, under a U.S. policy known as “wet-foot, dry-foot.”

Thank God for the Czech Republic.

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Fry the Five!

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Or, “Free the 11 Million!”

As usual, the MSM gives disproportionately positive coverage to the pro-Castro crowd while giving short shrift (at best) or flat out ignoring (at worst) injustice at the hands of the Castro brothers.

Example: scant coverage of the Primavera Negra (Black Spring) repression during its fourth anniversary this past weekend, while this is getting play in the MSM:

Five Cuban spies imprisoned in the U.S. for being unregistered foreign agents are vilified in Miami as dangerous conspirators. But here they’re considered “Heroic Prisoners of the Empire” who only sought to protect Cuba from anti-communist terrorists. During Cuba’s annual May 1 workers parade, hundreds of thousands of people will focus on their plight.

Oh, boo-freaking-hoo. If Cuba caught five U.S. spies (or five exiles spying on them), they’d be swinging from the end of a rope within days of getting caught. If you want to free Cubans, Fidel, you can start with the 11 million you repress and terrorize every day.

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It’s not just journalists in Cuba who are getting it. But then again, if you’re a regular reader of Castro Death Watch, you know that.

Surprisingly, Reuters did the following piece:

Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is still in control of the country and repression has increased during the rule of his younger brother Raul, a top U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday.

“Fidel Castro remains a … controlling political presence,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon said in an interview at the Reuters Latin American Investment Summit.

Castro stepped down last July 31 after undergoing emergency intestinal surgery, but Shannon said Cuba’s human rights record has since deteriorated as the government appeared to be trying to fend off any push for change.

“One thing that we have noted during this transfer-of-power period is that repression has increased,” he said. “It’s very important for … these new governors — if you want to call them that — to show that they are in control and that they can manage the regime and that they can manage the Cuban state and that they cannot challenged.”

Naturally, Reuters didn’t disappoint, referring to Fidel as “leader” while the rest of the world knows he’s a dictator.

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Only a few days left to take my March poll. The question:

How will Castro die?

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